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Use of the term "base-ball" in a short story written by Mary Russell Mitford entitled "The Tenants of Beechgrove" and published in the second volume of her collection of Berkshire village stories Our Village: "Better than playing with her doll, better even than base-ball, or sliding or romping, does she like to creep of an evening to her father's knee."
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Our Village, Vol. II, by Mary Russell Mitford, London, 1826, Geo. B. Whittaker, p. 28.
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